"Third Way" is a position akin to centrism that tries to reconcile right-wing and left-wing

[Vote2016]

politics by advocating a varying synthesis of right-wing economic and left-wing social policies.

"In the United States, "Third Way" adherents embrace fiscal conservatism to a greater extent than traditional social liberals, and advocate some replacement of welfare with workfare, and sometimes have a stronger preference for market solutions to traditional problems (as in pollution markets), while rejecting pure laissez-faire economics and other libertarian positions. The Third Way style of governing was firmly adopted and partly redefined during the administration of President Bill Clinton…  Clinton, Blair, Prodi, Gerhard Schröder and other leading Third Way adherents organized conferences to promote the Third Way philosophy in 1997 at Chequers in England.  The Third Way think tank and the Democratic Leadership Council are adherents of Third Way politics."

[merrily]

1. Too bad the "synthesis" in reality consists of doing what Republicans want, like repealing Glass

Steagall, or, in Hillary's case, trying for two consecutive years to get a flag burning bill passed. Luckily for the First Amendment, she failed both times.

But, what is your point in posting this?

[Vote2016]

4. Hillary supporters are denying that she is a "third way" candidate and they clearly don't even know

what the term means (and aren't aware that the Clintons invented the "third way&quot so I provided a definition and a link to some background reading.

[merrily]

7. I think they know exactly what it means and are very much aware. JMO

[Vote2016]

8. Some are but some are like children when it comes to political history

[merrily]

11. Most people who have been at DU a while know very well. I can't speak for the new crop, who

may or may not be part of the million dollars worth of internet trolls Brock bragged about having hired. I don't see a point in trying to educate them, either, because it's not going to be their job to shout "Hallelujah, I've seen the light."

Overestimating the amount of deception and insincerity would be difficult, IMO. But, I get more cynical by the day, so don't let discourage you from posting as though posters are sincere and willing to be persuaded with facts and reality.

[Baobab]

17. that definition (OP's) is wrong, basically neoliberalism is an attack by a tiny group of people

on the rest of the world's people - a rolling back of democracy, and of the latter part of the 20th century -

https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2007/12/01/neoliberalism-the-economic-model-origins-theory-definition-2005/
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674072244&content=reviews
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=376

[pdsimdars]

2. Shouldn't they have started the "Third Party"? That's what they are. They aren't true old time

Democrats like FDR, etc.

[Kip Humphrey]

10. No, they're true old time republicons like Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Ronald Reagon.

That's why the name "Republicrats".

[jwirr]

15. Exactly.

[djean111]

3. Or, as I see it - the Third Way waves around social issues that cost nothing, really, in order to

take our attention away from their intent to slash social programs, get rid of jobs, and deregulate as much as they can get away with. All of which, of course, hurts the very people that are addressed by the social programs.

And so many people believe we can't have social and civil rights AND economic help. Just one or the other. Which, of course, is bullshit.

[Attorney in Texas]

9. Third way Democrats use social issues exactly as establishment Republicans use social issues (red

meat thrown to the grassroots to trick them into thinking that there is some issue at the heart of the election other than the continuation of the ultrawealthy and corporations benefiting from economic exploitation ).

[djean111]

12. I tried pointing that out here a while back.

I was accused of minimizing the importance of gay marriage. NO, I was not minimizing it - I was saying that making gay marriage legal should not give the Third Way a pass on, say, ruinous trade deals.

[LWolf]

5. In other words, neo-liberals. nt

[Vote2016]

6. Exactly. Third Way = neoliberalism

[Nye Bevan]

13. That sums up my positions pretty well.

And probably unsurprisingly, I support Hillary.

[MisterP]

14. the only sources for "third ways" are

Putinism or the "Foucualt's Pendulum" freakshow that tried to overthrow Italy and blew up 80 people in Bologna

[BootinUp]

16. The only people who don't use that strategy is the ideologues. Nothing new 92 at all. nt

[Vote2016]

18. So candidates with core beliefs that don't change depending on the audience are "ideologues"? You

have clearly found your candidate in Hillary!

[BootinUp]

19. Look, if you want to claim the label, you can have it:

ideologue
noun ideo·logue ˈī-dē-ə-ˌlȯg, -ˌläg
Popularity: Top 20% of words
Simple Definition of ideologue

: someone who very strongly supports and is guided by the ideology of a particular group

Source: Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary
Examples: ideologue in a sentence

Examples of ideologue in a sentence

<as long as there are ideologues controlling both sides of the aisle, legislative compromise is out of the question>

<the revolutionaries proved to be impractical ideologues who had no idea how to run a country>



Full Definition of ideologue

1
: an impractical idealist : theorist

2
: an often blindly partisan advocate or adherent of a particular ideology

See ideologue defined for English-language learners

[Todays_Illusion]

20. They never got aroiund to informing the Democratic voer what they were up to, and wonder that

we are finally aware and are rejecting it in favor of Bernie Sanders once again running on what we all thought the Democratic Party principles were and what I expect from the Democratic Party.